Vivinavi : Chiba : (Japan) Chiba

Morning glories have been enjoyed by many people since ancient times. Especially since the Edo period (1603-1867), morning glories have experienced repeated booms, such as during the Bunka ・ Bunsei period, the Kaei ・ Ansei period, and the Meiji ・ Taisho period, and morning glories with flowers and leaves of various shapes that do not look like morning glories, called variant morning glories, were produced. In particular, although morning glories are annuals, they are unique worldwide in that they have maintained their non-seeding varieties by seed, and by the Kaei ・ Ansei period at the end of the Edo period, an extremely large number of varieties had been produced.
However, after the Taisho period (1912-1926), while the cultivation of large-flowered morning glories, which are still widely grown today, flourished, the number of morning glory enthusiasts gradually declined, and after World War II, the varieties were maintained by only a few enthusiasts. Fortunately, many of the variants of the variant morning glories that originated in the Edo period have been maintained to this day through the efforts of enthusiasts and researchers. Therefore, since 1999, the garden has exhibited these morning glories as a historical resource in order to promote awareness of traditional morning glories created with creative knowledge and techniques since the Edo period, and to see the relationship between people and plants.

This time, under the theme of "History of Morning Glories Written in Genome", the panels will introduce the outline of genome decoding methods, the origin of mutant genes and Japanese horticultural varieties, and how transposons （ moving genes ） were activated after their arrival in Asia, especially Japan.
and the activation of transposons after their arrival in Japan. Potted morning glories grown in the garden will be displayed in the greenhouse, pavilion, and reed beds in the Kurashi-no-Botanical Garden.

●Change morning glories: 40 strains of regular tree type and 25 strains of emergent type
●About 25 strains of large-flowered morning glories from the Meiji era onward
●European ・ About 10 strains of closely related morning glories from North America

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